Repeat is definitely going to work, although I would probably use iterate or maybe recurrent; if it could be confused with a loop. Ad hoc is not a good choice in my opinion. I would go for onetime or simply put a non- in front of the other word (non-iterating,...

Is changing the meaning of promise methods a good idea? Definitely not. the three legs of the promise are not exactly how my callbacks are They don't need to be. Most promises don't even have a notion of progress, that's why it was deprecated in V2. The only thing...

. has no inherent/magical meaning in R. It's just another character that you can use in symbol names. But because it is so convenient to type, it has been given special meaning by certain functions and conventions in R. Here are just a few . is used look up S3...

It is called the “subject” following the subject-verb-object sentence structure that object-oriented programming mimics: cat.meow(10, x); |_||___||_____| | | | | | +--> object (the arguments list is a tuple object) | | | +--> verb (the verb is the method name with the dot) | +--> subject (quite self...